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12 April 2013 – Julia Brock 1
human rights, gender, projects, advocacy, art, social justice, public engagement, community history, memory, archives
The second part of this art and public history conversation series features artist E.G. Crichton. In addition to being professor in the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz, Crichton is the first artist-in-residence for the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. Read More
05 April 2013 – Julia Brock 2
community history, memory, archives, human rights, gender/sexuality, projects, advocacy, art, social justice, public engagement
“All we have to open the past are our five senses. And memory.”
We public historians are increasing our fluency in languages. We are conversing with colleagues across the globe and across disciplines, we are ever dexterous in our work with new media, and we are constantly strengthening the ways we reach out to audiences, drawing from a language of engagement that has emerged since our field’s early days and that has blossomed in the last ten years. Read More
04 February 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 6
On a recent conference call that connected public history practitioners from Bangladesh, Brazil, Italy, Spain, South Africa, and the U.S., one participant remarked on the utility of replicating historic site and museum programs from different geographic locations in others. Another extolled the benefits of sharing ideas, methods, and experiences across the different regions of the world. Read More
04 January 2013 – Zachary McKiernan 1
human rights, profession, graduate students, advocacy, public engagement, community history, memory, museums, scholarship
Continued from Part I.
I recently watched a documentary on, of all things, happiness. The film, “Happy,” focused on the study of happiness (positive psychology) and what makes people happy and when, along with the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contribute or detract from happiness. Read More
23 November 2012 – editors 3
education, human rights, digital media, preservation, projects, social justice, public engagement, memory, scholarship
In the 1950s, South Carolina embarked on a massive statewide building spree in an effort to provide “separate but equal” schools for its African American and white students. Hundreds of new elementary and high schools in the Modern style sprung up across the state. Read More
04 September 2012 – Steve Lubar 6
training, politics, Reflecting on texts, social justice, memory, scholarship, education, human rights, international
NOTE: This post is part of a new and, we hope, semi-regular series in which public history educators share insights and observations about their use of “classic” texts in the public history classroom.
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Michel Rolph Trouillot, historian, anthropologist, Haitian intellectual and University of Chicago professor, died in July at age 63. Read More
06 July 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
Letters from Chile, preservation, social justice, public engagement, memory, museums, government, human rights, international, politics
In addition to the photos that have accompanied Zach McKiernan’s “Letters from Chile” series this spring, there have been many more that we didn’t post with the articles, but which we’re including here in a visual addendum to the series. All are by the author unless otherwise noted. Read More
27 June 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
scholarship, government, human rights, international, profession, Letters from Chile, advocacy, social justice, public engagement, memory, museums
/continued from Part I
At the outset of this series, I proposed two seemingly simple questions in hopes of unpacking the complexity of sites of memory and how they “engage citizens in human rights issues” vis-à-vis the past. What type of historic work is taking place? Read More
25 June 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 1
social justice, public engagement, memory, government, human rights, international, politics, Letters from Chile, advocacy
This past Sunday, June 10, the right-wing Corporation 11 de Septiembre held an homage to the dead dictator Augusto Pinochet under the auspices of a documentary screening at the iconic Teatro Caupolican in Santiago Centro. That day it was answered and challenged in sometimes violent ways by diverse sectors of society and weeks before when many of Santiago’s notably non-violent human rights organizations and sites of memory maneuvered to use legal and political recourse to prevent a ceremony that celebrated a leader infamous for overseeing an era of human rights violations. Read More
06 June 2012 – Zachary McKiernan 3
Letters from Chile, social justice, public engagement, memory, museums, government, human rights, international, politics
This is a personal letter. It is personal because I came to Chile to write and participate in the history of the museum project “National Stadium, National Memory,” whose aim is “the material establishment of national memory in respect… to the Concentration Camp… in 1973.” Read More